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Full Moon in Cancer: Emotional Healing

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      Today’s Full Moon is in the sensitive sign of Cancer. Childhood wounds stirred up earlier in the year are now ready to be faced and healed. This sign represents our emotional roots, our family and,  in particular, our mother.  It symbolizes the need for emotional integration, and brings up the urge to nurture and be nurtured.  Cancer  is a highly vulnerable sign, and a Full Moon in it's home rulership of Cancer will amplify and increase our emotions. A third factor (a square with Chiron)  is bringing our vulnerability up to the surface.  Chiron in Aries represent wounds to the self. Tears may flow.    Chiron, the Wounded Healer, brings the potential for deep transformational healing - as we face and acknowledgment previously concealed traumas that are coming to the surface. After such a difficult year, most of us are feeling rather raw, and many feel overwhelmed by fear, doubt and stress . This  Full Moon brings a promise of emotional renewal and healing that can transform
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  Welcome to the Grand Conjunction/Winter Solstice of 2020... a  powerful ending to an absolutely unbelievable year!  Although things are still chaotic and challenging ~ for now ~ we can pause and celebrate.  The light is returning - days will start to lengthen, bringing the reminder that shifts and endings can also lead to new beginnings. On the evening of Dec. 21, the planets Jupiter and Saturn (sitting at 0 degrees Aquarius) will appear closer together than in almost 800 years, only a tenth of a degree apart.  What appears to be a great star will appear  in the night sky - they won’t be this close again until March 2080. Some say this was the bright star that shone in Bethlehem when a great master was born. What we do know is the last Saturn Jupiter conjunction in Aquarius happened in 1405. That was the year Columbus sailed the ocean blue, the printing press was invented, and the middle ages gave way to the Renaissance. Change was afoot! Society was progressing to a new stage

Eclipse Portal

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We are now in the eclipse portal - the space between eclipses. As the Virgo Moon crosses over the mid-point between the Full Moon lunar eclipse on November 30th, and the upcoming Total Solar Eclipse on December 14th, things can feel surreal unfettered, un-grounded. The Moon opposite Neptune in dreamy Pisces creates  a Grand Cross pattern ; Moon and Neptune square the North and South Nodes of the Moon – the eclipse points, which are about our collective destiny unfolding. Neptune is mystical, non/linear, deeply spiritual and not-pin-down-able. It's effects can be  illusory, delusional, and escapist at worst, and deeply creative and inspirational at best. One part of us may want to escape the difficulties and numb out the pain, the other to create or meditate and connect to all that is.  I seem to vacillate between the two, though I know which one makes me feel better. We all get to choose.      In this  liminal space, this in-between,  we can take a momentary pause in momentum t

Full Moon Eclipse Gemini: Letting go of Limiting beliefs.

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  Woohoo! Eclipse season is here! Get ready for some unexpected changes and exciting shifts. Its been a hell of a year and we could use some fresh energy. Change is afoot!   The Full Moon prenumbral (partial) eclipse tonight/tomorrow - is exact at 4:42 am EDT - 9:42 am UTC early Monday Nov 30th. The Full Moon eclipse occurs in the sign of Gemini. That means it all about ideas and communication  - or about communicating our ideas. Because the Moon (emotions) is eclipsed- there's a possibility of letting go of our emotional baggage around an old idea or story. Unexpected developments can bring a new perspective in the house where the eclipse occurs (Uranus). Chiron (wounded healer) may  bring up old wounds to be healed, in this circumstance,  through speaking your truth.  Something or someone from the past may re-appear in your life ~ now is the time to assess if or where they fit now,  and if they don't - let  them go.      Emotion are up on the surface at a Full Moon; the

New Moon Scorpio: Time to begin again

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(I'm writing this quickly and its late- I hope it will be legible without too many typos ).  Sat/Sunday we have a New Moon in Scorpio ~ offering us our monthly chance to press the reset button! Whew! We can sure use it. A New Moon is a seed moment ~  the sacred marriage of Sun and Moon helps us to create new energy ~ this time in Scorpio, the sign that rules sex, death and transformation. This is potent stuff. People are often afraid of Scorpios- they can see through your bullshit and do not suffer fools gladly. This energy- if you can handle - is powerful. The power of Scorpio can help us transmute and transform a lot of the sh*t that has been stirred up over the past six months of fear, confusion and mayhem. Many are in survival mode - and are acting out their frustration in strange ways. There's an element of taboo with Scorpio - she takes us to the dark side to explore the shadows.  Mars/Venus in opposition add some heat and juiciness to the mix. Choices made  could have

Happy Halloween Samhain Full Blue Moon

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Welcome to Aurum Astrology. Please leave your info at top right if you want to receive newest posts by email. For shorter daily updates visit us on Facebook     Today is  the Second Full Moon in October ~  an electric Blue Taurus Full Moon!     As the days darken and the nights become cold - those of us  in the northern hemisphere are getting ready for the long winter ahead. This is the time of year when the veils between worlds are said to be  thinner ... making it a sacred time for honouring the dead and remembering our ancestors.     Samhain (a Gaelic word pronounced "sow-win") ~ is the Celtic New Year - known as Halloween in contemporary culture. Halloween ~ Samhain ~ Day of the Dead - celebrate those who have passed with candles and pumpkins and dressing up as ghouls and goblins;  scary spirits are kept away and familiar souls are welcomed with flowers and food as we celebrate and honour all who have gone before us. Those who have died are the reminders that our time o

New Moon- New Moment (sort of)

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The New Moon in Libra today brings another chance to press the reset button. Someone online called it a "fresh start with our old baggage."  Haha! That's kind of what this whole year is about, as all our past karma gets dredged up and thrown in our face. Sorry,  I know its not really funny, but if we can see that this madness is in fact a karmic reckoning - perhaps we will do the work of sorting ourself out and facing our own sh*t. Avoidance is futile!! Every month there's a New Moon in the next sign - flowing around the zodiac wheel and showing the progression of energy around a repeating cycle or circle. Around and around we go- hopefully learning something new with every passing. At this time last year many astrologers were putting out warnings about 2020, and though no one really knew what form the shake-up would take, we knew it was coming.   So here we are,  trying to maintain some sort of equilibrium as things get rattled and shook from every direction.  Libra